Elegance is no longer significant; clothes have to be fun.
YVES SAINT LAURENTThe street and me is a love story. 1971 is a great date because, finally, fashion took to the street.
More Yves Saint Laurent Quotes
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Fashion is like a party. Getting dressed is preparing to play a role.
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I’m so secluded. Very alone.
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A designer who is not also a couturier, who hasn’t learned the most refined mysteries of physically creating his models, is like a sculptor who gives his drawings to another man, an artisan, to accomplish.
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I am no longer concerned with sensation and innovation, but with the perfection of my style.
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Each model I have represents a type of ideal women to me.
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A woman’s wardrobe shouldn’t change every six months.
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I don’t like [to] make a woman … an abstract concept of the fashion. I don’t like [to] say, “You must wear that.” … I am not a dictator.
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I want to thank all the women who have worn my clothes, the famous and the unknown, who have been so faithful to me and given me so much joy.
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When you feel good in a clothing anything can happen.
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I pass for a hypersensitive, reclusive neurotic, which I may well be, but I hope the year won’t come when my anxieties and fatigue will destroy my love of this life, of all the things that inspire me–a line of music, a face in a Vermeer portrait, a character in an opera, or a model born in Harlem.
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I couldn’t love a woman who inspired me to be totally disinterested. If I fell in love with a woman for an artistic reason, or from the point of view of my work, I think it would rob her of something.
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Over the years I have learned that what is important in a dress is the woman who is wearing it.
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[Fashion is] a kind of vitamin for style.
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I prefer to shock rather than to bore through repetition.
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Fashions pass quickly, and nothing is more pathetic than those puppets of fashion outrageously made up one day, pale the next, pleated or ironed stiff, libertine or ascetic.
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